Animal movements result from a complex balance of many different forces. Muscles produce force to move the body; the body has inertial, elastic, and damping properties that may aid or oppose the muscle force; and the environment produces reaction forces back on the body. The actual motion is an emergent property of these interactions. To examine the roles of body stiffness, muscle activation, a...

Whenever the body is moving in a curvilinear path, inertial torques resulting from centripetal accelerations act on the body and must be counteracted to maintain stability. We tested the hypothesis that healthy subjects orient their center of mass in the position where gravitational torques offset the inertial torques due to centripetal accelerations. Ten healthy subjects stood on a platform th...

Biosignals are such signals that quantify the physiological processes of a living organism. Classification of biosignals aims at inferring the physiological condition of the organism based on the biosignals obtained from it. In this thesis, the classifications of two biosignals originating from the human body are studied in detail: the electroencephalogram (EEG) and acceleration signals recorde...

Secure spontaneous authentication between devices worn at arbitrary locations on the same body is a challenging, yet unsolved problem. We propose BANDANA, the first-ever implicit secure device-to-device authentication scheme for devices worn on the same body. Our approach leverages instantaneous variations in acceleration patterns from the user’s gait to extract alwaysfresh secure secrets. It e...

Swimming performance was assessed in juvenile pink salmon Oncorhynchus gorbuscha (body mass<5.0 g) using five different protocols: four constant acceleration tests each with a different acceleration profile (rates of 0.005, 0.011, 0.021 and 0.053 cm s(-2)) and a repeated ramped-critical swimming speed test. Regardless of the swim protocol, the final swimming speeds did not differ significantly ...

Traditional Newtonian mechanics treats gravity as one of the forces contributing to the acceleration of a body in motion. Newtonian natural motion is defined relative to an abstract inertial space where gravity is non-existent and free body velocity motion remains constant unless modified by applied force. With this interpretation, gravitational force is an embedded characteristic whose effect ...

The purpose of this research is to obtain an estimation of behavior of an elastic body based on errorneous observations. To do this, the ensemble Kalman filter finite element method is used. In numerical study, a three dimensional elastic body is considered. The Iwatayama tunnel is employed. This construction site is located in Gifu prefecture, in Japan. The external force is applied to the tun...

This paper inspect the trouble in recognition of exercise and also discover the burned calories after exercise. Our topic and motive of research to detect a problem, how walking, jogging and running effect on the human body using personalize algorithms. Pedometer is a device which is used to count the step while walking. This device may be used as a hardware device which attached with the body ...

PURPOSE To determine whether the promise of high-density many-coil MRI receiver arrays for enabling highly accelerated parallel imaging can be realized in practice. MATERIALS AND METHODS A 128-channel body receiver-coil array and custom MRI system were developed. The array comprises two clamshells containing 64 coils each, with the posterior array built to maximize signal-to-noise ratio (SNR)...